...Alejandro Rodriguez-Mayoral Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840–1910 . By Hart Paul . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustration. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Glossary...

...Donna Lee Van Cott Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion . Edited by Rus Jan , Castillo Rosalva Aída Hernández , and Mattiace Shannan L. . Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefi eld...

...David G. Lafrance Whatever the merits of Shadows as a primary source, readers interested in a more holistic view of the Zapatista movement should consult other works on the topic, works that Shadows will complement, not supplant. Ross, for example, has written a worthy book on the insurgency...

... in the Convention government of 1914 and 1915, the Zapatistas labored to develop a legislative program that reflected their growing appreciation of Mexico’s regional differences and national needs. Even after the disconcerting failure of this flawed experiment in national government, they did not completely return...

... University Press 1996 This is a book that deserves a close reading by any scholar interested in the various struggles and civil wars called the Mexican Revolution. It provides significant new information about the Zapatista struggle and a new version of the old story of Zapata himself. But it misses...

... by Duke University Press 2005 The Zapatistas’s decision to make “autonomy” the centerpiece of their negotiations with the Mexican state made the issue of autonomy “hegemonic” (as Mattiace puts it) within Mexico’s indigenous mobilization. As others have done, Mattiace examines the San Andrés Accords...

... As the Zapatista rebellion of 1994 becomes history, several substantive problems are coming into definition. Among them is the issue of how historians will position the movement relative to those that came before. Will historians see it as a matter of continuity or change? Do the Zapatistas constitute a new...

... at the time. The Zapatista coinage is particularly useful, since it is the richest of all the revolutionary coinages; it issued from at least ten mints which produced an abundance of silver and bronze over a period of four years. Many of these coins still exist, and upon examination reveal some otherwise...

.... —Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena, Comandancia General del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional Emiliano Zapata is one of the most significant figures in Mexican history. In early 1911 he and a small group of campesinos from the south-central state of Morelos joined a broader rebellion...

... University Press 2004 The revolutionary agrarian movement of the 1910s led by Emiliano Zapata in south-central Mexico continues to fascinate lay people and historians alike. Despite a growing number of studies on the Zapatistas, much is still to be learned. In this vein, Los orígenes del zapatismo...

... scanty and who has yet to give evidence of having seen an archive from the inside. Howard Cline escapes easily in comparison to Robert E. Quirk, against whom singular venom is directed. Millon is incensed that Quirk should describe the Zapatistas as provincial in outlook and concerned primarily...

... 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Since 1994 and the outbreak of the Zapatista rebellion in the southwestern Mexican state of Chiapas, this afflicted region has been the subject of an inordinate number of books. This recent book by Aaron Bobrow-Strain is one of the most interesting, original...

...John Hart Los manifiestos en Náhuatl de Emiliano Zapata . By León-Portilla Miguel . Mexico City : UNAM , 1978 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 112 . Paper . In his analysis of two Náhuatl Zapatista proclamations found in caja twenty-nine of the thirty-one-box Archivo...

... of the leading leftist journalists in Latin America. He has gained unique and powerful perspectives through his accompaniment of pueblos in movement, ranging from the Zapatistas to the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Sem Terra (MST). He is also a major theorist ofautonomismo, an antistatist current...

... troops at Cuernavaca under the supervision of Gabriel Robles Domínguez. 14 The mere spectacle of Madero’s treating with the Zapatistas inflamed the reactionary press in the capital to initiate a counterrevolution. El Imparcial called Zapata the “modern Attila.” A picture was painted of orgies...

... The result of a one-day conference held in Amsterdam in November 1994, this collection concentrates on rebellions, past and present, in Chiapas and the Andes because the Zapatistas and Sendero Luminoso have been “in the spotlights” (p. vii). Much of the Chiapas material, essays by Jan De Vos, Kevin...

... numerosas, incluidas las entrevistas a veteranos zapatistas que forman parte del Archivo de la Palabra, así como una fuente muy poco conocida en México y que parece ser muy rica: la Steinbeck Collection. Un aspecto relevante de este libro es que, además de ofrecer una narración de la vida de Zapata y...

... Ricardo Flores Magón nor his Zapatista emissaries are mentioned. Finally, like so many Zapata studies this one tends to portray the man as basically unchanged in political philosophy by the revolutionary events that whirled around him. Zapata is almost the same simple defender of village integrity in 1918...

... . Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 There is a voluminous literature on Zapatismo during the Mexican Revolution. There is far less, however, on postrevolutionary Zapatismo, especially its hydraulic dimension. After all, the Zapatistas did not just demand land; they also demanded water...

... and Pancho Villa had requested that First Chief Venustiano Carranza formulate a policy of land distribution. The Convention of Aguascalientes, later that year, brought the agrarian question even more directly to Obregón’s attention as he pondered the Zapatista presentation of the Plan de Ayala. After...